Tag: pollution-climate
Bitcoin falls again on Saturday
Among the crypto investors meanwhile prevails “extreme fear” of further losses. The so-called “fear and greed indicator” of the crypto market, which is calculated using technical market data, has fallen…
How record prices for metals threaten to slow down the energy transition
Berlin, Zurich Gas, coal and oil prices have rallied like never before. Due to the efforts for more climate protection, some high energy prices are likely to become permanent. But…
How record prices for metals threaten to slow down the energy transition
Berlin, Zurich Gas, coal and oil prices have rallied like never before. Due to the efforts for more climate protection, some high energy prices are likely to become permanent. But…
Hüther: For a climate policy consensus
Robert Habeck has created political transparency with the “opening balance sheet on climate protection”: “The current climate protection measures are inadequate in all sectors.” The climate neutrality targeted for 2045…
EU commissioner wants to vote against EU taxonomy
Johannes Hahn and Ursula von der Leyen in December The final EU taxonomy proposal is expected next week. (Photo: Reuters) Brussels It is one of the EU’s most sensitive political…
Podcast Handelsblatt Green: How green is nuclear power?
Dusseldorf Nuclear power – yes, please! This is how the EU Commission could paraphrase the original slogan of the opponents of nuclear power. EU politicians plan to classify energy from…
Countries are pushing for earlier abolition of the EEG surcharge
“The EEG surcharge remains a central point,” said the SPD politician to the Handelsblatt. It must be reduced to zero, which will reduce the price of electricity by around four…
Federal government stops subsidies for energy-efficient buildings
Renovation of an old building The Green Economics Ministry accuses the old federal government of massive mismanagement. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The federal government has temporarily stopped subsidies for energy-efficient buildings.…
Bitcoin falls again on Saturday
Among the crypto investors meanwhile prevails “extreme fear” of further losses. The so-called “fear and greed indicator” of the crypto market, which is calculated using technical market data, has fallen…
Bitcoin falls again on Saturday
Among the crypto investors meanwhile prevails “extreme fear” of further losses. The so-called “fear and greed indicator” of the crypto market, which is calculated using technical market data, has fallen…
Federal government stops subsidies for energy-efficient buildings
Single-family house shell The background to the freeze is an enormous flood of applications in January, especially for new construction subsidies. (Photo: dpa) Berlin In view of the flood of…
Bitcoin falls again on Saturday
Among the crypto investors meanwhile prevails “extreme fear” of further losses. The so-called “fear and greed indicator” of the crypto market, which is calculated using technical market data, has fallen…
Europe is at risk of years of stagflation because of climate policy
IW director Michael Hüther “The risk that the EU economies will barely grow anymore is real.” (Photo: dpa) Berlin The employer-oriented institute of the German economy (IW Cologne) warns of…
Annalena Baerbock is on the right track
Annalena Bärbock The foreign minister has announced an office for “hydrogen diplomacy” in the Ukrainian capital. (Photo: Reuters) Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock tried last week to send German support to…
Controversy over taxonomy becomes a reality check for the Greens
Vattenfall gas power plant in Berlin-Lichterfelde The federal government sees the use of gas power plants as a transitional technology. (Photo: Paul Langrock/laif) Steffi Lemke and Robert Habeck quietly and…
Federal government accepts natural gas for the transition – energy industry is relieved
Minister Habeck, Wissing, Baerbock with Chancellor Scholz Berlin The German government is clearly opposed to the EU Commission classifying nuclear power as a sustainable energy source. At the same time,…
The federal government gives a clear no to nuclear power in the EU – gas as a bridging technology
Minister Habeck, Wissing, Baerbock with Chancellor Scholz Berlin The Federal Government is clearly opposed to the EU Commission classifying nuclear power as a sustainable energy source, but supports a corresponding…
The federal government gives a clear no to nuclear power in the EU – gas as a bridging technology
Berlin The Federal Government is clearly opposed to the EU Commission classifying nuclear power as a sustainable energy source, but supports a corresponding classification of gas as a bridge solution.…
Unlike Baerbock, Scholz and Habeck see an additional role for gas
Minister Habeck, Wissing, Baerbock with Chancellor Scholz Berlin Apparently there are different estimates in the federal government as to how large Germany’s gas requirements will be in the coming years.…
Robert Habeck and Volker Wissing on the green transformation of the economy
Dusseldorf There is a real chaos on the electricity market at the moment. Since some energy discounters stop their deliveries, numerous customers slip into the basic supply and have to…